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    Rep. Minnick's Ad Slams Labrador's Work In Immigration Law

    Idaho: Election 2010: Rep. Walt Minnick's ad slams Raul Labrador's work in immigration law

    Labrador calls the ad 'shameful' and accuses Minnick of 'twisting and editing' his words.

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    Published: 09/17/10

    In one explosive allegation, the first-term Democratic congressman from Boise alleges that Labrador, a lawyer and state representative from Eagle, operated a firm, rapidimmigration.com, that provided "easy to understand advice for illegal aliens seeking amnesty."

    The ad also takes a snippet from a Labrador speech, in which Labrador says he likes the broken immigration system because he makes a "good living" with it.

    "Illegal immigration is good business for Raul Labrador," the Minnick ad's narrator says. "Over half of his work is helping illegal immigrants stay in the United States."

    Here's the full Labrador quote from his March 26 meeting of the Treasure Valley Pachyderms, a Republican group:

    "Our system is broken and this is where I work with the system all the time. I'm trying to get people to go through the legal immigration system. They have to pay me thousands of dollars just to bring somebody to the United States. That's ridiculous. Now I like it because I make a good living because of it."

    Labrador fired back with a statement Thursday night after Idaho Statesman Editorial Page Editor Kevin Richert posted Minnick's ad on his Commentary blog. Here is the statement in full:

    "Before today I have been telling the people of Idaho that Walt Minnick was an honorable man who was simply wrong on the issues. I can see now that I was 100 percent wrong to think Walt Minnick had any honor at all.

    "The level of hypocrisy he has stooped to is callous in the extreme, but a man who can lie about serving in Vietnam can lie about anything. This is a disgusting, disgraceful, shameful ad that bald-faced lies and succeeds in only twisting and editing my words into quotes that are blatantly untrue and will be obvious to those who originally wrote them and to those that were there to hear them, including the writers and editorial board of the Idaho Statesman. That newspaper should join me in demanding the removal of this sleazy, degrading ad immediately.

    "Finally, I would like to take this moment to ask if Walt Minnick remembers the young adoption and immigration attorney in the mid-1990s that worked at the same law firm that helped finalize the international adoption of his foreign-born child. That would be me. Walt Minnick should be ashamed of himself."

    The Vietnam statement refers to a biography of Minnick posted last spring by two Idaho Democrats who challenged Minnick's account of his Vietnam-era Army service. Minnick says he was a 1st lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the war, though his campaign literature and website do not say that he fought in Vietnam itself.

    "Walt has never lied about his military service," spokesman John Foster said.

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    Absolutely NOT

    We ABSOLUTELY DO NOT want an Immigration Attorney anywhere in Government if it can be avoided. That only spells open borders and floods of people destroying our country.

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    Labrador is a sleeze, and this is one Republican that will have to vote for the Democrat Walt Minnick, sorry sometimes you just don't have a choice and here I don't even have to think twice....the last thing we need in Idaho is a sleeze ball liar immigration lawyer!!
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